Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)

Alessandro Montanari Alessandro/ Koeberl Christian

ISBN 10: 3540663681 / ISBN 13: 9783540663683

Editore: Springer Verlag 2002-07-09, 2002

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Titolo: Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record (...

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag 2002-07-09

Data di pubblicazione: 2002

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: New

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Riassunto:

This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria-Marche sequence in Central Italy, with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years. A general introduction to impact cratering and a discussion of distal ejecta and impact layers around the world is followed by a detailed description of the record of the impact of extraterrestrial bodies in sediments of the Umbria-Marche Apennines. The volume is of interest to a diverse audience in the geological and planetary sciences, ranging from (upper) undergraduate to research level. This book can also be used by students and researchers as a field guide to some of the most important Italian impact layers.

Contenuti:

Introduction: Impact cratering as a geological process.- Distal ejecta and tektites.- Important distal ejecta layers and their source craters.- The umbria-marche sequence.- Impact stratigraphy in the U-M sequence.- Documentation and laboratory techniques.